How To Use Massacre In A Sentence

Certainly observant Jews remember the crusaders as evil butchers, who on their way to Jerusalem, slaughtered and massacred many thousands of Jews and decimated entire Jewish communities such as Speyer, Worms and Mayencea and of course, when they arrived in Jerusalem, put the holy Jews of the city to the sword. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The massacre was carried out by enemy troops.
According to the report, the massacre occurred after the guerrillas had tried to force the workers to stage a strike against the company.
Over the course of the year, he's almost hit on the head by a sparrowhawk, gets a whiff of "bad badger breath" when three cubs cannon into his lap, and watches two stoats massacre a screaming leveret, their normally creamy bibs "the colour of a slaughterman's apron". A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger by Colin Elford
We in Jaffa used to hear news about Palestinian villages falling into Jewish hands as well as massacres committed by the Jews. Global Voices in English » Palestine: Remembering Shafiq Al Hout

In November of 1997, after a massacre in Luxor that killed fifty-eight tourists and provoked overwhelming revulsion, Egypt's Gamaa al-Islamiya halted its armed struggle. Backfire
To minimize risks, they would not be required to disarm the several militia groups responsible for recent massacres.
Spade in hand, with his head full of Roman castrametation and geometrical problems, a prince, scarce emerged from boyhood, presents himself on that stage where grizzled Mansfelds, drunken Hohenlos, and truculent Verdugos have been so long enacting, that artless military drama which consists of hard knocks and wholesale massacres. History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete
The recent massacre in Acteal has forced the government to shake off its stupor, at least for a while.
1972 - Israeli Athletes are taken hostage by Palestinian Black September (group) at 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich massacre.
Accordingly, Wilson refused to take on any “mandate,” such as the Armenian territories of Turkey that had been victim of widespread massacres, or embark on an invasion of Russia to assist the anti-Bolshevik forces that were battling communist troops there. Shaping the World at Versailles: A Q&A With the Author of A Shattered Peace - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
During this same period of Flotilla Face-Offs with the IDF, Pakistan, my nation of matrilineal and patrimonial heritage has witnessed the extraordinary massacre of 120 moderate, pacifist Muslims, followers of the Ahmadiyyah movement that subscribes to peaceful, pluralistic Islam. Qanta Ahmed, MD: Israel and the Flotilla: On the Dangers of a Binary View
This is a massacre, or assome one elseposted withmorbid enthusiasm, an example of "beating the crap" out of people. Gaza and Tijuana; What if Rocket Bombs Were Launched from Mexico Into California
The massacre laid bare the moral bankruptcy of the regime.
Murwanashyaka said he suspected local Congo militias, known as the Rasta, were to blame for the massacre. ANC Daily News Briefing
the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee
After the massacre the local port was a scene of panic as people, mostly women, desperate to escape, fought their way up the gangplanks carrying their belongings and children onto badly maintained and overloaded ferries.
The crowd swarmed onto an open field, known as Miami Beach, where the 69 Blacks were massacred by police during anti-apartheid demonstrations on March 21, 1960. ANC Daily News Briefing
Both gaze lovingly at their partner in the audience as they massacre bad ballads.
It was once a speakeasy and just before prohibition was repealed a bunch of boozers were massacred by cops during a raid.
Critics dismiss the massacre as just another cheap publicity stunt.
The poshest hotels and some of the most prominent watering holes for tourists and the rich became charnel houses in massacres that threatened to undermine India's astonishing economic growth.
The same course he adopted with those that held Hispalis, who at first, pretending to be willing, had accepted a garrison from him, but later massacred the soldiers that had come there, and entered upon a course of warfare. Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C.
The UN failed to respond to impending massacres despite forewarnings in all three cases.
The bombing of Dresden was one of the worst massacres in European history.
New Orleans, by the way, having executed a triumphant massacre of the yellow fever mosquito (stegomyia) is now undertaking to rid itself of all the other varieties. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.
Moreover, the Boston Massacre provided much of the rationale for the Third and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution, which protect us from soldiers being quartered in our homes and from “unreasonable searches and seizures.” A Renegade History of the United States
Waiting for the future of you appear, see the last side of life on pay a massacre.
All is dwarfed at the end, though, by a chilling report and follow-up on the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre.
Not included here, however, is the massacre of 175 civilians in the Yazidi community in Iraq. Paul Krassner: A**holes of the Week #6
Rebels in Libya are warning of what they call a "massacre" in the western city of Misrata unless NATO provides them more support against government forces. Libyan Rebels Make Desperate Plea for Stronger NATO Action
Robert Gottfried writes, “By 1351, 60 major and 150 smaller Jewish communities had been extirpated, and over 350 massacres had taken place.” Modern Science in the Bible
Sen's camera surveys the craggy cliffs on top of which the massacre occurred.
First up, the breaking news: On the eve of a memorial for 13 people massacred at Fort Hood, Texas, we have new information about their alleged killer and his ties to a notorious recruiter for global jihad, sobering new questions, as well, about warning signs that may have gone unacted on. CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2009
Is the massacre likely to touch off a new round of violence?
The author witnessed several tragedies, including one small-scale massacre by a neighboring population.
He says no one can prove there have been massacres, and the journalists linger on the illuminative qualities of the horizon - of the frame - the beauty of the light.
He had already taken Cologne, where he was reputed to have massacred 11,000 virgins.
As it turned out, the filly was the lone survivor of the Christmas massacre and they called her Bugz. Deanne Stillman: The Luckiest Horse in Reno: A Christmas Story
Some of the worst massacres by paramilitaries have been in towns where the university expects to attract students.
As a revenge fantasy, this isn’t very satisfying, because slaughtering the people who ordered your loved ones massacred is ultimately unrewarding and also conflicts with the higher intellect of this story, which aims to be about a lot more than “you hurt me, so I’ll hurt you”. Huntress: Year One » Comics Worth Reading
Even the advertising campaign on television is billing the tie as a massacre, happily chirruping: ‘If you thought the cricket was bad…‘
Some accounts do not count these people as "massacred" and estimate that fifty were massacred. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Called prester by the Greeks, typhoon by the Romans, timmins by the Persians, and dragons de mer by the French, waterspouts annihilated ships and massacred sailors. A Furnace Afloat
Over the next 24 years, the occupiers inflicted massacres, hunger, forced sterilization, and attempts at cultural annihilation on East Timor.
We would massacre their cities, killing woman and children, and they would do the same.
Nothing else can describe such brutal massacres, such wanton destruction.
Human-rights organizations have charged his forces with widespread rape, massacres in churches, mutilation, torture, cannibalism and forced conscription of child combatants.
This massacre will forever live in our minds.
Apoiar e louvar dessa forma um massacre covarde a animais, é realmente, sem compreensão. Pesca ao tubarão em kayak/ Extreme Kayak Shark Fishing
At the National Gallery a series of works is accumulating around the rediscovered Massacre of the Innocents, whose owner has generously agreed to place it on loan.
He was deeply involved in the attempt to whitewash and cover up the My Lai massacre.
Last night nearly 5,000 people in Cardiff witnessed a massacre and not a prizefight.
Holy Innocents Day, also known as Childermas, commemorates King Herod's massacre of all male infants in and around Bethlehem under the age of two in attempt to kill the young Christ.
According to their own counts at polling stations, they've "massacred" Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
If the Bill is passed, it will stop the massacre of harmless creatures like deer, hares and foxes.
It's a wraparound justification for a violence whose real end is the expiation of shame through massacre.
In Beijing sullen survivors of the massacre symbolically broke small bottles (xiaoping) homonymic with the dictator, and residents of the capital spoke ominously of sorcerers 'creating tiny effigies of 'old Deng' to be hexed and otherwise incised. That Old Chinese Black Magic
Her description of the massacre sent a chill through the audience.
We discovered in the massacre at Macclesfield that all teams can look poor going backwards, and Longton were certainly no exception.
In retaliation to killings of northerners in the South, the military rulers massacred thousands of southerners and many were brutally tortured.
But Barbara literally rules The Aztecs; the only early story I can think of off-hand which puts a companion closer to the spotlight is also by John Lucarotti, The Massacre. Linkspam for 9-10-2009
Not so much a massacre as ‘four scumbags getting beat up,’ the smackdown in the prison is relatively tame.
Their reluctance can only multiply manifold after Sunday night's brutal massacre.
The massacre laid bare the moral bankruptcy of the regime.
Careful observance of procedural niceties will impede any speedy response to an unfolding massacre.
Her description of the massacre sent a chill through the audience.
Lake District massacre: After 12 killings, Derrick Bird spared foung gamily The Daily Record - Home
The junta is mostly known for slaughters and massacres, but there really is a demand for change.
Pis dans project zero tu massacres pas des infirmieres a coup de pied de biche (oui le pied de biche c super efficace sur les infirmieres, bien mieux que la carabine!!) mais tu prends des fantomes en Photo!! Pinku-tk Diary Entry
Fifty thousand devotees praying to the lingam and weeping passionately with hands clasped around their necks were massacred in cold blood.
Acts of aggression, massacres and corruption legitimise foreign intervention.
There are cases where unilateral military action will be the only way to stop genocidal massacre.
Their reluctance can only multiply manifold after Sunday night's brutal massacre.
He has also had a hand in massacres and human rights violations in the Nuba Mountains and Abyei. John Prendergast: Getting Specific About Accountability in Sudan
To the poetic vision of early seers the crimson West seemed ensanguined by some great massacre that had been perpetrated there. The light that draws the flower
As the situation spiralled out of the control of the student leaders, the military was sent in to massacre the anti-government protestors.
It's Johnson who's directly overseeing the staff massacres as well as micromanaging some of the dumber editorial moves.
Is the massacre likely to touch off a new round of violence?
As a child, I heard the stories from my father about our notable forebear, an honest man who was saved from a massacre, the sole survivor.
the GIA has embarked on a terrorist campaign of civilian massacres
Eight to ten millions of soldiers will massacre one another and in so doing devour the whole of Europe until they have stripped it barer than any swarm of locusts has ever done.
On the way back to Moscow we stopped in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, most of whose Jews had died during the Nazi occupation in what was known as the Babi Yar massacre. Staying Tuned
The Jewish presence in Romania dates back to the fifteenth century, but it reached significant proportions only in the seventeenth century with the major waves of emigration from eastern and northeastern Europe and, as a result of the Chmielnicki massacres (1648 – 1649), from Ukraine, Galicia and Bukovina as well. Romania, Women and Jewish Education.
The concrete reality consists of kidnappings, murders, tortures, rapes and massacres.
The interview makes specific reference not only to the more recent detention of activists in Armenia and Azerbaijan, but also to the 10 May dispersal of youth protesting a flower festival held a little over a week after the 30 April massacre of students in a Baku university. Global Voices in English » Azerbaijan: Blogger response to University massacre
The pope is in Bosnia celebrating mass in Banja Luka, which is in the Serbian dominated republic within Bosnia, on the site of a infamous World War II massacre, in which some 2700 Serbs, including about 500 children, were killed by Croatian fascists. CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2003
But while mum has passed her love of cats to me, she has not managed to do the same with her passion for clearing up after them when they drag half the garden through the cat flap, or conduct a massacre on the hearthrug.
Meanwhile the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) said a further charge of "falsifying" the history of the 1960 Sharpeville/Langa day massacre should have been added. Mail & Guardian Online
Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday prayed at the memorial to victims of a 1944 massacre that was one of the worst atrocities by German occupiers in Italy during World War II and denounced what he called the "abominable" legacy of violence unleashed during war. The Seattle Times
a general massacre, fled in affrighted haste to Jerusalem. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And since peace and stability will be hard to achieve, we should pull out and let the “Srebrenica style massacres” commence instanter. Stromata Blog:
Meanwhile, rebels have warned of what they call a "massacre" in the western city of Misrata unless NATO provides them more support against government forces. Air Strikes Hit Libya As Diplomats Consider Options
I thought that I had seen one tiny corner of an indiscriminate massacre of students and intellectuals, a bloodbath.
An older fighter in a white turban and blue overalls introduced himself as Saleh ben Ali, forty-nine, a survivor of four years in Abu Salim prison, where the 1996 massacre had taken place.
Sure enough, the soldiers went in, they were captured, they were butchered, they were massacred.
Holy Innocents 'Day or Childermas, whether or not because of Herod's massacre, was formerly peculiarly unlucky; it was a day upon which no one, if he could possibly avoid it, should begin any piece of work. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
In March 1770, there occurred what became known as the Boston Massacre.
When the crime came at last, it was as blundering as it was bloody; at once premeditated and accidental; the isolated execution of an interregal conspiracy, existing for half a generation, yet exploding without concert; a wholesale massacre, but a piecemeal plot. PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
He also has a combination of other psychopathic disorders which meant he had no control over his actions during the family massacre.
Days pass, thousands more are massacred, and we go on with our lives.
They felt bitter about It and were against Tswam being "massacred" - to use Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda
We hear next to nothing of the refugee camps, the economic and social embargoes and the massacres.
I sincerely hoped that the name was coincidental and had nothing to do with any sort of Halloween-inspired massacres at my new home. How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf
Yet, what impresses throughout is the highly imaginative state-of-the-art stagecraft depicting everything from cannonades against sailing ships to samurai massacres.
Bill Czolgosz alters, edits, expurgates, massacres and abridges the original Twain narrative with gusto; and delivers up a whimsyladen trek through the rotting heart of the Zombie Apocalypse. The War of The Worlds
It was a massacre with not a single point scored by the Bulldogs.
The author deftly portrays Mitchell's cavalier attitude toward the proceedings and his consequent massacre at the hands of an able prosecutor.
unseelie" does not me impish prankster. your unseelie red cap should be eating babies. your unseelie sluagh should be creeping out of the closet to bring terror to children- absolute, psyche scarring horror. your unseelie pooka should be telling the kind of lies that wreck a marriage, that cause a massacre. Mordicai: crown me king!
Demonstrations against passes, organized by the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), led to the Sharpeville massacre in which police fired on unarmed demonstrators, killing 67. C. South Africa
What they got instead was the massacre of innocent people and the intelligentsia.
I'm sure you all remember the Belvedere College massacre over when an angry young student went on the rampage with a plank of wood with a nail in it. 8 people were treated for puncture wounds.
ROME mdash; Jewish groups expressed outrage Wednesday that a former Nazi SS captain convicted for his role in the massacre of 335 civilians in Italy ... Erich Priebke, 97-Year-Old Nazi War Criminal, Allowed To Leave House Arrest In Italy
Sunni renegades had earlier massacred Alawite soldiers in Aleppo. Syria: Identity Crisis
How he got there in the first place and why he felt the need to massacre the chickens, she couldn't even begin to comprehend.
When one erring General committed the Amritsar massacre in India, there was great public outrage in Britain and he was cashiered over it.
It's difficult to believe that such a peaceful place was the site of a massacre.
And then there was that massacre in Beslan, Russia and that just kinda squeezed the fun right outta me, in one long gooby string like toothpaste from the tube. Weeme Diary Entry
Waiting for the future of you appear, see the last side of life on pay a massacre.
The chopper pilot, however, did not report the massacre.
The Times newspaper also ran articles about a report of a massacre seven months earlier.
He was the only painter of the Impressionist group to record the destruction of the Commune, and was outraged by the ruthless way in which the Communards were massacred.
Regardless of its condition problems, it nevertheless seems more than likely that both the Samson and Delilah and the Massacre of the Innocents preceded it, and that Jaffe's dating of the latter is too late.
In 1982 during Israeli invasion of Lebanon, Naji al-Ali was an eyewitness to the terrifying massacre that took place in the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila.
It was a massacre. When a team wins 38-14, on the road, without forcing a single defensive turnover, you know it has been a one-sided game.
Coltart would like to start introducing education reforms — adding human-rights courses to the curriculum and getting Zimbabwean schools to address such controversial issues as the military’s massacre of thousands of civilians in Matabeleland in southern Zimbabwe in 1983. Frenemies of the State
Slaughters , massacres and sudden deaths occur frequently. WARNING!! Cataclysmic Hyperbole Pandemic! « XUP
The death toll exceeded the 1987 Hungerford Massacre, which left 17 dead, including the gunman, Michael Ryan.
After the massacre in the church, Mouzinho and her family fled to the local military headquarters.
Pfeiffer, with his shrewd stroke at the kernel of their faith in the symbol of the idol, had established a kind of godhead; and by his ferocious massacres had thoroughly cowed them. Witch-Doctors
Our team was massacred in the final.
Several events are scheduled in Dili, such as a photo exhibition in Fundação Oriente (which was itself the place where a massacre occurred in 1999) describing solidarity movements over the years. Global Voices in English » East Timor: Celebrating Global Solidarity for Freedom
Returning from the conquest of the East, Aurelian had already crossed the Straits which divided Europe from Asia, when he was provoked by the intelligence that the Palmyrenians had massacred the governor and garrison which he had left among them, and again erected the standard of revolt. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The game was a 10 - 0 massacre.
Weeping, the well-greaved Achaeans turned-off with headlong speed to the shore of the much-resounding sea, since they were being massacred at the hands of the relentless man Telephus. Languagehat.com: CLASSICAL GOLDMINE.
But it also saw a continuation of nationalist wars in which hundreds of thousands of people were wantonly massacred in just about every corner of the globe.
Finally it arrived last Friday, the week after the avengeful, Jos massacre. Vanguard
Federal and state ministers have met 20 times since the earlier massacres and failed to agree on change.
In the opinion of the Chamber, there is no doubt that considering their undeniable scale, their systematic nature and their atrociousness, the massacres were aimed at exterminating the group that was targeted.
the embryonic government staffed by survivors of the massacre
In my case, it is very possible that these bacteria have been eliminated - I prefer the word "massacred" - through bouts of violent diarrhea. Gan_bei: A Story of Flora, Fauna, and Kung Pao Chicken
i think he was trying to make the point that – in the massacre trial, the chain of command (which is what the subtopic was at the moment in their conversation) did have something to do with the massacre (an SS general was convicted) i took a look at the video, and he does state ‘who did it’ — the question is, was this a rhetorical question, or a statement as fact. Think Progress » O’Reilly Tonight: How Blogs Are Destroying America
He remained untraced for the past few days as a team of Jharkhand police arrived in the Delhi and pasted the arrest warrant issued by the Court in connection with the 1975 Chirudih massacre on the wall of his official residence.
These political leaders were trying to press the King, enthroned after the gruesome massacre, to rectify his errors.
But Tsinan, on that hot May afternoon, had shown me wholesale massacre in new and shocking forms. The Last Empress
But it could all end right here, right now for him - in a brutal massacre.
Eles acreditaram sempre, nós apenas “acordámos” depois de muito terem eles e elas sofrido, como se uma lança espetada de dor nos tivesse impelido a “acordar” … foi assim a partir do Massacre de Sta. Global Voices in English » East Timor: Celebrating Global Solidarity for Freedom
Oriental Club; but Clive (who had taken a trip to Paris with his father, as a delassement after the fatigues incident on this great work), when he saw it, after a month’s interval, declared the thing was rubbish, and massacred Britons, Malays, Dragoons, The Newcomes
His stepfather's brand of Islam accommodated elements of animism and Hinduism, but Obama understood in retrospect that the overthrow of Sukarno in 1965, and the massacre of Communists and ethnic Chinese, had changed his stepfather from the idealist his mother had met at the University of Hawaii to an incommunicative man intent on surviving in the new regime. Dreams from Obama
Whether he is representing aggression, as in the Massacre of the Innocents, or strength subdued, as in Samson and Delilah, it is possible to use this exaggeration to make his point.
All these films we've been talking about… even Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2, are all unrated pictures.
The second market massacre has fueled hostility to the US-led invasion throughout the region.
If a book has been mauled by our critics, one can hardly expect the massacre to be put on display in a shop aiming to shift copies of the offending item.
Horses lash out, the cannons flee; the soldiers of the artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their escape; transports overturned, with all four wheels in the air, clog the road and occasion massacres. Les Miserables
The plan agreed on by the Bishop and the Captain was to go as far north as Vate, and return by way of the Loyalty Isles, which fringe the east coast of New Caledonia, to touch at that large island, and then visit the Island of Pines, at its extreme south point, and there enquire into a massacre said to have taken place. Life of John Coleridge Patteson
For a group claiming to defend the Islamic ummah, these massacres had dealt a devastating blow to its credibility.
The massacre at Jedwabne had been preceded by similar atrocities in the surrounding region.
Few Chinese films about the massacre portray Japanese soldiers as human beings.
The very word Kampuchea brings fear to many Vietnamese, whose memory of the 1978 Khmer Rouge massacres at the border village of Ba Chuc remains fresh. Cambodia: Phnom Penh, 1996: A Trip Journal
Waiting for the future of you appear, see the last side of life on pay a massacre.
After taking some time to play himself in, he simply massacred the bowlers and England were put to the sword.
Pope visits memorial to Nazi victims in Rome Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday prayed at the memorial to victims of a 1944 massacre that was one of the worst atrocities by German occupiers in Italy during World War II and denounced what he called the "abominable" legacy of violence unleashed during war. The Seattle Times
Now they've taken yet another show I grew up with and massacred it.
More artillery, more tanks, more machine-gun fire, ominous death-dealing fighter planes terminating whole city blocks at a time this wasn't a war, it was a massacre!
The massacre of a Roman magistrate and his staff signalled open warfare.
A young student in 1984, he maintains Blue Star and the massacres after Indira Gandhi's assassination created a religious revival among British Sikhs.
He'll meet privately with the families of the people killed in that massacre.
Thus it is not generally known that several thousand citizens have been massacred along the northern rim of the country the past 17 years.
To prevent evidence of the ‘human shield’ internees who escaped but witnessed the massacres from coming into the public domain SL is tempted to drag out the release of these detainees much to the displeasure of the Indian public. Global Voices in English » Sri Lanka: Abuse, Disbelief And Bitterness Persist
Alone in the world, the sole survivor of her massacred tribe, the Russians to her were the murderers of her people, the assassins of the free musicians with eagle profiles she used to follow as they played the czardas from village to village. The French Immortals Series — Complete
As an anniversary ceremony was taking place, authorities in Dili released an Indonesian citizen accused of leading one of the worst massacres in East Timor in 1999. Global Voices in English » East Timor: Where is Justice for the Suai Church Massacre?
He also said coalition operations had averted what he called "bloody massacre" of Benghazi residents by Gadhafi loyalists. Anti-Aircraft Fire Erupts Over Tripoli as More Nations Enforce No-Fly Zone
The murder scene in question involves a roadside massacre that's foreboded with each flashback scene during the questioning of the three witnesses. Rabid Rewind: Surveillance
Religious minorities were persecuted and massacred during the ten-year regime.
This woman has so far massacred every single one of the covers she’s done…from the overblown vocal theatrics of ANGELS to the insipidly uninspired neutralness of her TAKE MY BREATH AWAY to the so-minimalist-it’s-almost-inaudible vocal tics of THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING. Pick Jessica Simpson's next single | EW.com
Today, there is a small octagonal chapel in the Beirut coastal suburb of Antelyas dedicated to the 1915 massacres.
The Gators erase memories of their 62-24 massacre to Nebraska after the 1995 season by pasting the Wildcats.
Nevertheless the fanatic lowlanders, propense to pillage and proselytizing, burned the Christian churches, massacred the infidels, and tortured the priests, until they provoked a blood feud of uncommon asperity. First footsteps in East Africa
Defence chiefs axed another 7,000 civilian jobs today in a massacre of the so-called brolly brigade. Evening Standard - Home
Sweeping into Kievan Rus 'on small, swift horses, firing arrows of bone that pierced Russian armor, the hordes pillaged, massacred, and enslaved the Slavic population to such an extent that most Kievan principalities were knocked out of the history books for 200 years. Russia Is Finished
No, they were massacred in their own places most brutally.
It was a slow slaughter, peppered with massacres and atrocities from which whole generations are still recovering.
One might ask why he wasn’t equally bent out of shape about the massacre of Muslims in Hama carried out by the apostate, Hafaz Assad, in 1982, which atrocity far over-matches anything carried out against the Palestinians by Israel. Matthew Yglesias » ADL Hits Petraeus
The orchestra didn't help matters and massacred the song completely and turned the guitar solo into a joke.
Thousands of acres of rich cotton-lands were exchanged by the Indians for orders on the store, they giving warranty deeds to same, reserving only the rights of piscary and massacre. Comic History of the United States
At the time of the first occupation of this region by parties engaged in the fur-trade, a small party of men, under the command of ----- Reid, constituting all the garrison of a small fort on this river, were surprised and massacred by the Indians; and to this event the stream owes its occasional name of _Reid's river_. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
Curiously, the word works as both dysphemism and euphemism: Americans were repelled in 1940 at the fictional account of lynching called The Ox-Bow Incident, but when Chinese Communist officials want to minimize what Westerners call “the massacre at Tiananmen Square,” they call that crushing of studentled protest “the incident of June 4, 1989” in Chinese, liu si, “six four”. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
Hundreds of innocent women and children were massacred.
(AP) - Survivors looking back on the Columbine school massacre include Patrick Ireland, known as the bloodied "boy in the window" who tumbled into the arms of rescuers. WCAX - Local News
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And while tocsins sounded all over Paris, the dead were carted through the Saint-Antoine district, accompanied by witnesses to the massacre shouting ‘Vengeance!’
Turkey against the accused culprits of the massacre in Sivas. Dario Fo - Nobel Lecture
Here is not the swift impatient journeywork of a rough and ready hand; here is no sign of such compulsory hurry in the discharge of a task something less than welcome, if not of an imposition something less than tolerable, as we may rationally believe ourselves able to trace in great part of Marlowe's work: in the latter half of _The Jew of Malta_, in the burlesque interludes of _Doctor Faustus_, and wellnigh throughout the whole scheme and course of _The Massacre at Paris_. A Study of Shakespeare
Just last month, a Post editorial on the Norway massacres sparked what the newspaper itself called an "avalanche" of critical comments and letters condemning the paper for what readers saw as having offered justification for the terrorism. Bradley Burston: A Rightist Push Scores Against Press Freedom in Israel
For a discussion of the word massacre and Marlowe, see Graham Hammill, “Time for Marlowe,” ELH, vol. 75, no. Bloodlust
She was the sole survivor of the massacre.
Thousands were massacred by white settlers or evicted from their ancestral lands.
In the lower register of the west bay there are traces of what was probably the Presentation in the Temple and, in the wider area above a small door, the Flight in to Egypt, followed by the Massacre of the Innocents in the vault above.
Again, Saul loses a battle and wishes his armorbearer to slay him, who refuses; he wounds himself, but not effectually, and at his own desire a young man despatches him, who, carrying the news to David, is massacred for his pains. A Philosophical Dictionary

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